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Adobe Acquiring Macromedia on December 3, 2005

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the done-deals dept.

dennison_uy writes "Adobe Systems Incorporated and Macromedia, Inc. today announced they have either received or been notified they will receive all regulatory clearances necessary to complete Adobe's pending acquisition of Macromedia. The companies expect to close the transaction on December 3, 2005. Does this mean the end for Fireworks and Freehand?"

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  1. Background info by JonN · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here are a few links for background information for anyone who needs:

    How the Adobe-Macromedia Merger Could Impact PDF
    Interview of both CEOs
    Staff's comments
    Article with a bit more bulk on the subject (The article linked about is quite small)

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  2. Re:Speed by Jearil · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you tried version 7 of the Adobe Acrobat Reader? I was shocked as I figured when I downloaded it it would just add more garbage that slowed it down to even further hights of unusability... and yet when I opened a PDF with it, the whole thing came up in like 3 seconds.

    They definately were going for "teh snappy" with the 7 release. Try it out, it's quite a bit better.

    I still prefer Preview though ;)
    (and damnit.. xpdf can suck sometimes.. why do half of my documents show only pics and no text?)

  3. Re:Speed by giorgiofr · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, it's because of the three thousand plugins that are loading while you watch that splash screen. Move them from the plugins dir to a backup one, restart Acrobat and see it fail, read what plugin is missing, restore it, repeat 3-4 times and notice how it now takes less than 1 sec to show up.
    I tried it and the loading time went from like 10 to 1 second.
    Then of course when you're doing something that requires a plugin, restore it and leave it there (for example, the search function *is* a plugin... WTF?) but anyway 90% of them won't be needed.
    HTH

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  4. PDF SpeedUp -- Just use it. by eddy · · Score: 3, Informative

    PDF SpeedUp 1.42 (win32)

    Not only a fancy way to disable the plugins, it actually removes the splash screen, removes crappy GUI elements (advertisments), etc.

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  5. 64-bit plug-in by dusik · · Score: 2, Informative

    Does this mean that Adobe will speed up the development of a 64-bit Flash plug-in? IMO, that's long overdue.

  6. Re:PNG better quality? by illtud · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's odd... short of saving at 16bits/channel (which maybe Photoshop can't do - I don't touch that thing), I don't think there are any quality settings with PNG per se; it is a lossless format, after all.

    There's a lot you can to optimize PNGs, for example with pngcrush. See Wikipedia's detail on PNG filesizes. For more info on PS's bad handling of PNG, see Photoshop & PNG about halfway down that page.